Today’s movie of the day is 1979’s Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola’s most groundbreaking and artistically stunning works depict the horrors of war in Vietnam via bizarre and symbolic scenes.

Synopsis

In this movie, Captain Benjamin Willard is dispatched on a risky assignment that “does not exist, nor ever will exist” during the Vietnam War. His job is to track down and kill a mystery Green Beret Colonel called Walter Kurtz, who has been commanding his own army on unauthorized guerilla forays into enemy territory.

Fun Fact

• Apocalypse Now (1979) was written by Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius.
• The cast includes Harrison Ford, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando and Laurence Fishburne.
• The movie doesn’t have any opening credits. Late in the film, the title appears as graffiti on the Kurtz complex.
• The film was inspired by the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
• Orson Welles and Lee Marvin were both offered the part of Colonel Kurtz, but both declined.
• The American Humane Association awarded the film an “unacceptable” rating for the slaughter of a water buffalo in a ritual practiced by a native Ifugao tribe in the Philippines, where animal cruelty laws are neither enforced nor monitored.
• The film’s overall budget was $45 million, including a $9 million advertising campaign.
• In the United States, Lions Gate Studios and Paramount Pictures reframed the theatrical and Redux DVDs, as well as the older letterbox VHS and LaserDisc versions, in “Univision” format.
• To capitalize on the popularity of Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, and other Vietnam War films, the film was re-released in six cities on August 28, 1987.
• In 1979, it won two Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Sound.

Today’s movie of the day is 1979’s Apocalypse Now. Francis Ford Coppola’s most groundbreaking and artistically stunning works depict the horrors of war in Vietnam via bizarre and symbolic scenes.

Synopsis

In this movie, Captain Benjamin Willard is dispatched on a risky assignment that “does not exist, nor ever will exist” during the Vietnam War. His job is to track down and kill a mystery Green Beret Colonel called Walter Kurtz, who has been commanding his own army on unauthorized guerilla forays into enemy territory.

Fun Fact

• Apocalypse Now (1979) was written by Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius.
• The cast includes Harrison Ford, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando and Laurence Fishburne.
• The movie doesn’t have any opening credits. Late in the film, the title appears as graffiti on the Kurtz complex.
• The film was inspired by the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
• Orson Welles and Lee Marvin were both offered the part of Colonel Kurtz, but both declined.
• The American Humane Association awarded the film an “unacceptable” rating for the slaughter of a water buffalo in a ritual practiced by a native Ifugao tribe in the Philippines, where animal cruelty laws are neither enforced nor monitored.
• The film’s overall budget was $45 million, including a $9 million advertising campaign.
• In the United States, Lions Gate Studios and Paramount Pictures reframed the theatrical and Redux DVDs, as well as the older letterbox VHS and LaserDisc versions, in “Univision” format.
• To capitalize on the popularity of Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, and other Vietnam War films, the film was re-released in six cities on August 28, 1987.
• In 1979, it won two Oscars for Best Cinematography and Best Sound.